Thinking Through Science and Technology

Auteur

Glen Miller is instructional associate professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. He has co-edited Reimagining Philosophy and Technology, Reinventing Ihde (with Ashley Shew).

Helena Mateus Jerónimo is assistant professor in the School of Economics and Management (ISEG), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. She has edited Portuguese Philosophy of Technology and is a member of the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology.

Qin Zhu is associate professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech. He is the lead author of the 5th edition of Ethics in Engineering.

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This wide-ranging collection of original essays explores how individual and societal beliefs, values, and actions are transformed by science, technology, and engineering. Practical and theoretical insights from a global cohort of philosophers, policymakers, STS scholars, and engineers illuminate the perils and promise of technoscientific change.

Contenu

Foreword

Carl Mitcham

Preface

Glen Miller, Helena Mateus Jerónimo, and Qin Zhu

Chapter 1: Editors' Introduction

Glen Miller, Helena Mateus Jerónimo, and Qin Zhu

Part I: Philosophy and Technology

Ch 2: The Enigma of Technology

Andrew Feenberg

Chapter 3: Organization as Technique: A Blind Spot in the Philosophy of Technology

Daniel Cérézuelle, translation by Christian Roy

Chapter 4: Technology as Process

Mark Coeckelbergh

Chapter 5: Political Philosophy of Technology: After Leo Strauss

Carl Mitcham

Chapter 6: The Nuclear Menace and the Prophecy of Doom

Jean-Pierre Dupuy

Chapter 7: The End of Technology and the Renewal of Reality

Albert Borgmann

Part II: Philosophy and Engineering

Chapter 8: An Engineer Considers Technological (Non)Neutrality: "But Where Are the Values?

Byron Newberry

Chapter 9: How Engineers Can Care from a Distance: Promoting Moral Sensitivity in Engineering Ethics Education

Janna van Grunsven, Lavinia Marin, Taylor Stone, Sabine Roeser & Neelke Doorn

Chapter 10: Parallel Steps toward Philosophy of Engineering in China and West

Nan WANG and LI Bocong

Chapter 11: The Development of the Philosophy of Engineering in China: Engaging the Scholarship of Carl Mitcham

Tong LI and Yongmou LIU

Part III: Religion, Science, and Technology

Chapter 12: Christianity, Power, and Technological Domination: A Typological Approach to the Church

José Antonio Ullate

Chapter 13: Technology in Cosmic Terms: The World Council of Churches in Amsterdam, 1948

Jennifer Karns Alexander

Chapter 14: Beyond Tools, Means, and Ends: Explorations into the Post-Instrumental Erehwon

Jean Robert

Chapter 15: Understanding Bureaucratic Order: The Theological Paradigms of Modern Hierarchy

Sajay Samuel

Chapter 16: What Religion, What Technology? A Wittgensteinian Approach

Andoni Alonso

Chapter 17: Bioethics, Philosophy, and Religious Wisdom: A Critical Assessment of Leon Kass's Thought

Larry Arnhart

Part IV: Science and Technology Studies

Chapter 18: Ethics and the Search for Scientific Knowledge: The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth?

Carlos Verdugo-Serna

Chapter 19: A Short History of Science, Truth, and Politics in the United States, 1945-2021

Daniel Sarewitz

Chapter 20: Moral Narratives of Technological Change in the Early Green Revolution

Suzanne Moon

Chapter 21: Momentum, Interrupted: Developing Habits of Discernment in Engineering and Beyond

Jen Schneider

Chapter 22: Innovation Policy Driven by the Market: The Second Great Disembeddedness

José Luís Garcia

Part V: Science and Technology Policy

Chapter 23: Irrational Energy Ethics

Adam Briggle

Chapter 24: Paradoxical Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Women's Farming, Oil, and Sustainable Development

Tricia Glazebrook and Gordon Akon-Yamga

Chapter 25: The Pandemic and Clamor for Vaccines: Ethical-Legal Considerations for Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Sharing

Pamela Andanda

Chapter 26: An Effective History of the Basic-Applied Distinction in "Science" Policy

J. Britt Holbrook

Chapter 27: Technological Risks, Institutional Wariness, and the Dynamics of Trust

José A. López Cerezo

About the Contributors

Index

About the Editors